A large field of 350 players showed up on August 7th to compete at the PokerStars.net Latin America Poker Tour Punte del Este Championship.
Spaniard Jose Miguel Espinar claimed the title and won the first prize worth of $241,735. Alex Brenes finished second after few hours of heads-up, when he moved all in with A-10 and Espinar made the call with Kc3c. The flop brought Kd7c9c what meant top pair and flush draw for Espinar and after 4s and 9s came on turn Espinar was the winner.

The $2,500 buy-in tournament with total prize pool more than $850000 attracted a lot of pros like Team PokerStars members Vanessa Rousso, Humberto Brenes or Alexandre Gomes and Gylbert Drolet. The last two entered the final table at leading positions followed by Espinar on the third place. .Final table results: